East Wheal Rose railway station

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East Wheal Rose

General information

Location

Cornwall
England

Coordinates

50°21′44.19″N 5°2′27.65″W / 50.3622750°N 5.0410139°W

Elevation

43 metres (141 ft)

Platforms

Single platform station

Tracks

Cornwall
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East Wheal Rose railway station is a station on the Lappa Valley Steam Railway in Cornwall, England.^[1]

History

In 1849 Joseph Treffry opened a tramway from the East Wheal Rose mine to Newquay. The loading sidings were the first East Wheal Rose station.

It became a railway in 1874 when the tramway was taken over by the Cornwall Minerals Railway and steam locomotives replaced the horse-drawn wagons. The Great Western Railway took over the line in 1896 and expanded it as a branch line in 1905 from Newquay to Chacewater servicing the resorts of Perranporth and St Agnes and ran it until nationalisation in 1948.

British Railways ran the line until 4 February 1963 when the last train ran before the Beeching axe fell.

Ten years later, in 1973, Eric Booth bought a section of the old railway line and laid a narrow gauge railway along a section of it. He built it up into a popular tourist attraction with a play area for children at the East Wheal Rose site. East Wheal Rose Station came into being in 1974. It has been upgraded on a couple of occasions during its history with a new station building and new paving being laid. In 2014, Lappa Valley was sold to Keith and Sara Southwell.^[2]

Gallery

East Wheal Rose station
'Muffin' at East Wheal Rose railway station
'Muffin' at East Wheal Rose railway station
Passengers await an arrival at East Wheal Rose railway station

References

^ Creative, Venn. "Visit Us". Lappa Valley. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
^ Creative, Venn. "Heritage". Lappa Valley. Retrieved 30 September 2020.

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